Re: [gentoo-user] Total system hangs, flightgear, nvidia drivers

[Bob Sanders]

On Fri, 09 Dec 2005 18:43:45 -0500
fire-eyes <sgtphou@×××××××××.org> wrote:

> Hell, I am running into some very irritating problems when trying to use
> newer nvidia drivers.
>

The newer Nvidia drivers have a tighter spec on speeds.  They also now need
mode lines for, as I recall, resolutions above 1280x1024.

Also, as your monitor is one of those that has a flakey EDID (from reading your log),
any edid setting will get ignored.

The drivers do work, in most cases[1].  I'm running at 1920x1200 on 8174-r1.  But
that is with a mode line.  I still get occasional system hangs on my 2P amd64 system
while playing ut2004.  But I think that may have to do with threads and audio.

Bob

[1] An SGI FP1600SW with an Nvidia 6xxx card at 1600x1024 is a case where none
     of the drivers work, even with mode lines.
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